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Hans Eysenck and the Jewish question: Genealogical investigations
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posted on 2016-06-15, 13:17 authored by Andrew M. Colman, Caren A. FroschWe present evidence establishing that Hans Eysenck was half Jewish. He went out of his way to conceal this fact and to disavow his Jewish ancestry until the publication of his full-length autobiography in 1990, long after he retired, when he revealed that one of his grandparents was Jewish. Using specialized genealogical techniques and resources, we trace his Jewish maternal grandmother, who died in Theresienstadt concentration camp in 1944, and his Jewish maternal grandfather, who practised medicine in Königshütte and later in Berlin. We discuss Eysenck’s possible motives for disavowing his Jewish heritage for most of his life.
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Personality and Individual Differences, 2016, 103, pp. 195-199Author affiliation
/Organisation/COLLEGE OF MEDICINE, BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES AND PSYCHOLOGY/MBSP Non-Medical Departments/Neuroscience, Psychology and BehaviourVersion
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Personality and Individual DifferencesPublisher
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1873-3549Acceptance date
2016-04-08Copyright date
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